The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant.
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The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant.
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Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.
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London :: Printed for Thomas Horne ...,
1700.
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Weights and measures -- Early works to 1800.
Coinage -- Early works to 1800.
Exchange -- Early works to 1800.
Balance of trade -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Commerce.
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"The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57390.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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CHAP. CCCXLIII. Examples of the Exchanges practised in Naples, and how the same are to be calculated.
* 1.1I Have shewed in the general Exchanges of
Naples, with how many other places this City is found to
Exchange, and there also shewed the common rates, how the same doth govern, which every day is so found to alter, that no set rule can peremptorily be set down for the same, yet it is in it self so beneficial, that thereby the Learner may know how to make his account, ei∣ther in his Draughts or Remittances; the way of making which account now remaineth to be handled, observing the same with so many other places, as may be fittest to understand the ground thereof.
* 1.2It is also there observed, that the Bankers and Exchangers of the place do keep their account in Ducats, Taries and Grains, the which are cast up by 5, and by 20, because that 5 Taries do
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make a Ducate, and 20 grains a
Tarie; also that the Crown of Gold, in Gold of this Kingdom, is 13 Carlins, or 6½ Taries, and the Crown of money or Silver is 11 Carlins or
5½ Taries, the Ducute of Gold being worth 6
Taries, and the Ducate current is worth 5
Taries.